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mares, and driving and work horses. There has been no sickness 

 among the horses, and their style, action, and health are all that can 

 be desired. He attributes his unvarying success to the fact that the 

 meal is never fed alone, but is always carefully mixed with some 

 light concentrate. (423) 



190. Cotton-seed meal for dairy cows. — Hills of the Vermont Sta- 

 tion^ found in a 6-months feeding trial with 20 cows that "cotton- 

 seed meal seemed to possess a small tho measurable advantage over 

 linseed meal as a milk and butter making by-product. ' ' Michels and 

 Burgess of the South Carolina Station- write: "Cotton-seed meal 

 and corn silage form by far the cheapest dairy feeds available to our 

 dairymen. The cost of a ration is only slightly more than half as 

 much as that of the common dairy ration now fed in this state." 

 Moore of the 'Mississippi Station^ found that for cows 1 lb. of cot- 

 ton-seed meal was equal to 1.7 lbs. of cotton seed or 2 lbs, of corn- 

 and-cob meal. (641) 



The milk of cows heavily fed on cotton seed or cotton-seed meal 

 yields a hard, tallowy butter, light in color and poor in flavor. If 

 not over 3 lbs. of cotton seed or cotton-seed meal is fed, along with 

 a generous allowance of other concentrates and of roughage, or if 

 the cow is on good pasture, the quality of the butter is but little 

 affected. The use of cotton-seed meal may prove helpful with cows 

 whose milk produces a soft butter. (619) 



191. Steer fattening. — Vast numbers of steers are fattened on cot- 

 ton-seed meal at the cotton-oil mills of the South. At these estab- 

 lishments, starting with 3 or 4 lbs. of cotton-seed meal daily, the 

 allowance is gradually increased to 6, 8, or even 10 lbs. per head 

 along with all the hulls the steers will eat, which amount is about 

 4 lbs. for each lb. of meal. The feeding period lasts 90 to 120 days. 

 Lloyd of the ^Mississippi Station* found that with fattening steers 1 

 lb. of cotton-seed meal proved equal to 1.6 lbs. of cotton seed or 1.9 

 lbs. of corn, while 1 lb. of cotton seed equaled 1.2 lbs. of corn. Soule 

 and Fain of the Tennessee Station,^ as the result of several steer- 

 feeding trials, conclude that "A ration of silage, cotton-seed meal, 

 and corn meal is probably better adapted for use on the average 

 southern farm than any other." 



McLean of the Mississippi Station*^ states that 2-year-old steers 

 should not be fed over 7.5 lbs. and yearlings not over 6 lbs. of cot- 

 ton-seed meal daily. 



^ Rpt. 1908. ' Bui. 60. " Vol. 15. 3. 



= Bul. l--?!. *Loc. cit. "Bui. 121. 



